Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус

@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca it reminds me of the biology/history lessons with doctors refusing to wash their hands.

@LALegault@newsie.social @lennybacon@infosec.exchange sometimes I see the argument that there will be domination by techbros (Musk, Zuckerberg, etc.) instead who are unfortunately still rather young. I drink for the death of these three too, but we should stay vigilant. And indeed always vote for a woman whenever possible. It'll not happen in our lifetime that a matriarchy could compensate for the millenia of patriarchy.

@gabrielesvelto hopefully those MacBooks could run Linux with the badram option.

@teacher_rick@mastodon.nl @bartgroothuis@mastodon.online @joepbc@mastodon.social er is een vrij groot verschil tussen een lokaal algoritme wat getraind op basis van machine learning goed onkruid kan herkennen en het generative AI verhaal wat we tegenwoordig zien.

@r3pek@mastodon.r3pek.org @kde@floss.social @sovtechfund@mastodon.social if you manage to log in to MS 365 with Konqueror and open OneDrive there, you can replace https with webdavs in the URL bar and it'll give you the folder view.

I don't think there is any other environment where this works as smoothly as KDE.

(This all relies on WebDAV being able to use the cookie from the original login process.)

@zwartboekaanbesteden ik zat bij mijn studie veel met TUE studiegenoten (master werd vanuit UT, RU en TUE aangeboden en telelecturing bestond nog niet). Die hadden allemaal zo'n TUE laptop en het OS zelf moeten vervangen door iets fatsoenlijks. Inderdaad bizar dat dat nog steeds niet is opgelost. (Op de UT hadden we geen laptops en draaide de faculteit op dual-boot systemen met SUSE.)

@Gammitin I have quite a similar system here. Are you using Firefox (I think I see the icon)? It would seem very slow. I have good experience with using Pale Moon and it seems even better with Konqueror. (Possibly Falkon might be fast too.) Most games shipped with Debian should run as well. Are there specific advantages that MX has over Debian? Curious to hear about your experiences!!

@fabio@manganiello.eu not allowing to unlock the bootloader is likely a GPL violation. It would seem good to address that in a way the @conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org is doing. https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html

@r3pek@mastodon.r3pek.org @kde@floss.social @sovtechfund@mastodon.social I tried this in the past and that did not really work, but I'll try that again when I have the opportunity. (My corporate managed laptop is Ubuntu with Gnome, so I can try this. KDE Plasma is on my private devices.) Thanks for letting know!!

@anthk @thedaemon I imagine that the programs being executed inside those emulators are typically non-free ;)

@chemoelectric Schwartz means "Black" in German, so I would imagine various families independently have this family name from one another. There are also people named "Black" and "Zwart" or "De Zwart". In some cases they might be related. In my case Schwartzenberg is the Dutchified version of Schwarzenberg (as used by German/Austrian ancestors and descendants of branches that are still there). Hopefully there's a way to capture the information in books that would crumble. That indeed happens.

@chemoelectric ah yes, then I understand where you ran into alignment! I understood you do prefer PowerPC though? I'm curious why. You know about the workstations from Raptor Computing? It's great you have such projects despite such a long time disability! The article is nice yeah! Here in Europe, German/Austrian names are more common, but I don't often end up chatting like that with someone with such a similar name :)

@nil@furry.engineer @moira@mastodon.murkworks.net I have that hardware actually (SunPCi II). Not used in quite a while, but this kind of sucks if it really just doesn't work anymore at all now :(

@osmocom@fosstodon.org @sysmocom@mastodon.social this would seem massive news to me. I've never looked into buying a 4G device for myself, but now if 2G would stop working one day, I could just use a USB SIM reader and with any internet connection I could make and receive calls again? This seems to be a complete game changer to have a mobile phone number without relying on any proprietary software. (Apart from what's running on the SIM.)

@nil@furry.engineer @moira@mastodon.murkworks.net many thanks for looking into this. I won't be able to try it soon, but when I do and run into this, I'll be sure to reach out!! You seem to be using the program for the SunPCi III whereas I have a SunPCi II. Possibly they are different. I still had the Ultra 5 on my desk in 2010-2011, so possibly the check isn't in that version or I indeed didn't boot up the card after 2009. There is relatively little point in emulating that card btw. (A 2nd QEMU x86 instance will help more.)

@floe@hci.social might be good to see if they are compatible with any Librebootable ThinkPads. There is quite a big demand for those. @libreleah@mas.to would be the prime expert :)

@nil@furry.engineer @moira@mastodon.murkworks.net I see where you're coming from but basically you'd end up hooking up a second QEMU instance with some rather limited and peculiar hardware. The SunPCi II board for instance is just this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiS_630/730 on a PCI card with some tricks that allow rerouting the display in a window and using disk images stored on the Solaris filesystem. You'd be dealing with emulating the SiS 630/730 and even if you do that, you then already have a superior independent stand-alone emulator :)

@anthk regarding looking for a new/refurbished system. Do you happen to have any specific hardware recommendations that would work well with Linux-libre? Maybe particular notebook models or chipsets to look for?

@techokami@woof.tech I was also surprised to see this as git.kernel.org is using Anubis to block AI crawlers.

@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net @minterpunct@gamemaking.social I would not be sure about the budget aspect. They did record quite a variety of songs for this release. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAA37B0895CB2E2E0

@chemoelectric @jbc @itsfoss I wouldn't say that. Torvalds has indicated that he does not like to be involved in the naming matter himself, but does consider usage of GNU/Linux or Linux/GNU to be more professional when talking about the combination.

@anthk I see there are uses for those things, but generally they do significantly increase the security risks and I'd too stick with carefully picked firmware (and maybe drivers) only.

@anthk quite a bit of firmware is non-free even when a typical system with Linux-libre, it's just read from a ROM instead of uploaded by a driver into the chip's memory upon initialization. The big issue with using random firmware blobs is that people become accustomed to their OS updates delivering new versions of random blobs and there's no insight or control in what's going on there. If we all use a time-tested blob from many years ago, it is the same as dealing with a ROM blob.

@eff@mastodon.social this is the start of the guide: """ Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later """ Obtaining a device that happens to have one of these operating systems and setting it up so it actually respects you, *is* overwhelmingly difficult.

@xot most governments seems to be moving to Matrix... which we can all use just the same? I never used either WhatsApp or Signal myself, so I wouldn't know if there's a particular reason to look into either of them. They are both centralized which I believe is ultimately flawed.

@sysmocom@mastodon.social @osmocom@fosstodon.org it's funny. I use a Sony Ericsson J120i and once received an SMS message "VoLTE has been activated". I couldn't imagine that to be relevant in any way to me at that time :) I have some old USB SIM readers, so I might be able to try this. I played with Asterisk before too (mainly with ISDN and SIP). This is really amazing to see!!

@kiwix@mastodon.social will it be in French or English? Are you planning stream or record it?

@davidgerard@circumstances.run not using a smartphone, but regarding a folding phone I am using a Sony Ericsson Z550 that a colleague gave me and it works just fine. Given its age, I don't see any reason a folding phone would perform worse than a non-folding one :)

@chemoelectric how do you see ARM in that light? Regarding Solaris/SPARC I do have an old Ultra 5 here. Would you suggest I look at learning it's assembly language? (That would be for one future day though, I'm afraid not soon...) You seem to have a lot of experience and it's interesting to see both our family names like that :)

@luciedigitalni@aus.social is anybody aware of translations of this book? There is quite a bit of material in English that elaborates on Meta's problems, but I observe that people that do not speak English are much less aware of these problems. I guess the gag order prevents the author from pursuing that it gets translated :(

@cstross@wandering.shop I always wonder why people call him JD Vance instead of James D. Vance (or just James Vance).

@cstross@wandering.shop yeah, actually I wrote that wrong. I am really wondering why people always call him "Jay Dee" Vance. But I think calling James D. Vance just Beelzebubba would be the easiest yes.

@chemoelectric amazing you learned so much about that history! Quite a bit of territory switched countries multiple times within a century there. Maybe they met in the Austro-Hungerian empire? Ukrainian and Polish are similar enough that two native speakers of one and another can understand each other about 80% of the time. So Polish and Ukrainian would seem more likely than German in Russian as otherwise there would seem to be a huge language gap.

@howtophil is this actually necessary? I asked on the dosemu2 side: https://github.com/dosemu2/dosemu2/discussions/2823 There is quite a bit of codepage handling inside dosemu itself which I'd expect to handle the conversion between the DOS and terminal code page.

@chemoelectric @jbc @itsfoss I see, I would say that the popularity of Linux does speak for it, but indeed I'm not technical enough to judge such aspects. I think from the perspective of Torvalds, at this point hardware design and support should tailor Linux instead of the other way around. This is different from how it used to be and where nowadays other kernels might become more interesting. Given the recent HURD improvements, possibly it will become an interesting contender down the line.

@anthk yep, I run such laptop too. But unfortunately there are still a lot of unknowns and we could enable so much more on these devices with more specs. For instance it would be amazing to reverse the CPU microcode and be able to patch things ourselves.